{"351441":{"#nid":"351441","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Three Tech Faculty Named AAAS Fellows","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has named three Georgia Tech professors as 2014 Fellows.\u0026nbsp;AAAS is the world\u2019s largest general scientific society, and election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the new AAAS Fellows comes from the College of Engineering and two come from the College of Sciences. The Fellows were announced in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScience\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand will be honored at the Fellows Forum, held Feb. 14, 2015, at the AAAS Annual Meeting in San Jose, California.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new AAAS Fellows at Georgia Tech are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/jones\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChristopher W. 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He has been producing videos since junior high, from live concerts to short action films and sitcoms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EDalsu Choi is a fourth-year graduate student working on the development and theoretic analysis of novel solution processing methods for effective molecular assembly of pi-conjugated polymers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech-COPE would also like to mention the other students that submitted videos in the contest and thank them for their participation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wpsJR--5nEU\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EComputer Simulations of the Bulk-Heterojunction Morphology in Organic Solar Cells\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022 Khahn Do (Chemistry, Bredas Group)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ak2m6v5UXbw\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EProcessing and structure-property relationships in conjugated polymer nano structures\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EThomas Bougher and Matthew Smith (ME, Cola Group)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Tech\u2013COPE Research Video Contest\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cope.gatech.edu\/education\/videocontest.php\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2013COPE Research Video Contest\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;gives students involved in the field of organic photonics and electronics at Georgia Tech an opportunity to present their research and compete with other students.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech-COPE Research Video Contest gives students involved in the field of organic photonics and electronics at Georgia Tech an opportunity to present their research and compete with other students."}],"uid":"27185","created_gmt":"2014-11-06 15:13:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:26","author":"Jason Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"249821":{"id":"249821","type":"image","title":"Georgia-Tech COPE video contest logo","body":null,"created":"1449243795","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:15","changed":"1475894929","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:49","alt":"Georgia-Tech COPE video contest logo","file":{"fid":"198071","name":"videocontestbanner.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/videocontestbanner_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/videocontestbanner_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":59749,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/videocontestbanner_0.png?itok=Lv_yQqZK"}}},"media_ids":["249821"],"groups":[{"id":"1273","name":"Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"78351","name":"cope research video contest"},{"id":"5917","name":"organic electronics"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"197","name":"video"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"330241":{"#nid":"330241","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Novel porous silicon microfabrication technique increases sensing ability","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a novel method for improving silicon-based sensors used to detect biochemicals and other molecules in liquids. The simplified approach produces micro-scale optical detection devices that cost less to make than other designs, and provide a six-fold increase in sensitivity to target molecules.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new technique uses a thin film of porous silicon material to coat a layer of light-conducting dense silicon. The porous silicon thin film contains many connected pores and internal surfaces that greatly increase the effective area onto which a chemical component of interest \u2013 often referred to as an analyte \u2013 can bind. The increased surface area allows the porous silicon to capture larger numbers of analyte molecules, which increases overall detection sensitivity and thereby facilitates detection of analytes occurring in low concentrations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnlike earlier methods for generating porous silicon, the Georgia Tech thin-film process is more easily adapted for use with standard silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates, and also allows for highly precise control of the thickness of the porous silicon layer. The research was described in a recent paper, \u0022Magnesiothermically Formed Porous Silicon Thin Films on Silicon-on-Insulator Optical Microresonators for High-Sensitivity Detection,\u0022 published in the journal \u003Cem\u003EAdvanced Optical Materials\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A larger surface area means there\u0027s more room for the analytes you\u0027re seeking to land, and then to interact with the optical signal \u2013 the light \u2013 that detects them,\u0022 explained \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=2\u0022\u003EAli Adibi\u003C\/a\u003E, Joseph M. Pettit Chair and a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering \u003C\/a\u003E(ECE), who co-led the research along with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/faculty\/sandhage\u0022\u003EKenneth H. Sandhage\u003C\/a\u003E, B. 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Other center participants included Emory University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California-Santa Cruz, and Yale University.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, Professor Mostafa El-Sayed of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and David Gottfried of the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology were also principal investigators on the CIPhER program. Ali A. Eftekhar, an ECE research engineer, was also part of the technical management of this project. Adibi was the lead principal investigator of this program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOptical Detection of Analytes\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech researchers are working with a silicon-based optical sensor that utilizes a racetrack-shaped optical resonator capable of coupling strongly with light passing through a nearby optical waveguide at particular light frequencies. The resonator\u0027s surface is chemically functionalized to bind with specific bio-markers, chemical components or other analytes being sought.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the optical signal passes through the silicon waveguide and resonator, the associated electromagnetic field can interact with one or more specific types of chemical components captured in the silicon surface. If an analyte is present, it alters the resonance frequency of the racetrack resonator, showing its effect on the power transmitted through the waveguide. The greater the concentration of the analyte, the larger the frequency shift, and the larger the effect on the transmitted power.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETraditionally in bio-sensing, a layer of dense silicon has served a dual purpose. It functions as the waveguide for the optical signal that detects analytes, and it also provides the surface that captures those analytes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The problem with that approach is that dense, planar silicon has limited surface area onto which analytes can bind,\u0022 explained Sandhage, who is also on the faculty of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. \u0022That significantly reduces how much response you get from the interaction of the light with the analyte.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrevious efforts to create pores in silicon to increase surface area have encountered drawbacks, including complexity \u2013 such as difficulty in adapting to standard silicon-on-insulator substrates \u2013 and a reduction in silicon\u0027s ability to transport optical signals, he said. One such technique, called anodization, hinges on the problematic use of a hazardous hydrofluoric acid bath with an applied electrical current to etch into doped silicon. The technique tends to yield relatively large columnar (two-dimensional) pores in doped silicon, a modest surface area, and higher loss of optical signals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ability to controllably convert silica into porous silicon with fine, 3-D-interconnected pores is useful in other applications besides chemical sensing, Sandhage said. These include anodes for lithium ion batteries, optical displays, and inverse opals, which are three-dimensional photonic crystals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The collaborative interplay between Professor Adibi\u0027s group and my group was essential to the success of this work,\u0022 he said. \u0022We both brought to bear specific techniques and expertise that enabled us to accomplish what neither of us could have done alone.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Simpler Method\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn their recent paper, the Georgia Tech teams report development of a simpler, more effective device fabrication approach. Using an oxidation process, they first grew silica (silicon dioxide) on top of the dense-silicon layer. Then, using a shape-preserving magnesiothermic reduction process, the Sandhage group exposed the silica layer to magnesium gas generated by heating magnesium silicide. The process has been patented by the Georgia Tech Research Corp. under U.S. Patent No. 7,615,206.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe resulting magnesium gas reacted with the silica layer to yield a fine mixture of silicon and magnesium oxide, but did not react with the dense-silicon layer underneath. The magnesium oxide was then easily dissolved with a weak acid solution to yield a porous silicon layer with very fine 3-D-connected pores, which trapped analytes effectively but did not appreciably scatter light and could be tailored to within about a nanometer of thickness.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EForming a reliable sensor requires careful design and optimal fabrication of the nanophotonic structures, a task that was performed in Adibi\u2019s group. The fabrication process includes a critical step \u2013 using electron beams to cut channels in the porous silicon and underlying dense silicon, to form a patterned structure. This microlithography technique creates tiny trenches in the porous silicon and dense silicon, yielding porous-silicon-on-dense-silicon waveguides and microresonators that guide the optical signals and enable them to detect analytes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the Adibi\u0026nbsp; team used advanced computing approaches to model the materials development process and to design the sensor structures. The models helped the researchers understand which techniques were most effective for producing efficient microresonators.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We have demonstrated that you can integrate microlithography and controlled-pore silicon on dense silicon without significantly sacrificing the quality of the resonator,\u0022 Adibi said. \u0022The result is a resonant-frequency response for sensing with much larger sensitivity \u2013 by about a factor of six \u2013 compared to when you don\u0027t have the porous silicon.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis research was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). 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applications will now be accepted for the 2015 COPE Fellowship. Students funded by this fellowship will receive a $5,000 award to his\/her existing stipend. Students will have access to our network, meet peers from other departments and are encouraged to participate in various COPE activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEligibility\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul class=\u0022clearfix\u0022\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGraduate students with a Bachelor\u2019s degree by the time the award begins.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EApplicants should have a superior academic record as demonstrated by a GPA of 3.5 or higher. Only students who have been at Georgia Tech for at least two years, and engaged in research for at least one year, are eligible to apply.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStudent supported will perform research in the field of Organic Photonics and Electronics and will present their research at the end of the year to the COPE community.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EYou must be a COPE student member. 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Besides electronics and nanotechnology, Georgia Tech IRIs focus on bioengineering and bioscience; energy and sustainable infrastructure; manufacturing, trade and logistics; materials; national security; people and technology; renewable bioproducts; and robotics (see \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/institutes\u0022 title=\u0022www.research.gatech.edu\/institutes\u0022\u003Ewww.research.gatech.edu\/institutes\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In addition to promoting collaboration and new research, I believe IEN should be forward-looking and help define future research grand challenges,\u0022 Brand said. \u0022On the one hand, we need to react quickly and effectively to requests for research proposals coming in to us, and on the other hand, we need to be proactive by seeding concepts that can be used to generate future calls for proposals.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrand received his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in Switzerland in 1994. He did postdoctoral research at Georgia Tech from 1995-1997, and then returned to ETH Zurich as a lecturer and deputy director of its Physical Electronics Laboratory. He came back to Georgia Tech in 2003 as a faculty member in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, gaining tenure in 2007 and becoming a full professor in 2009.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Professor Brand is committed to seeding and growing new interdisciplinary and industry-sponsored research efforts and working closely with faculty and sponsors to define an electronics and nanotechnology roadmap for the future,\u0022 said Stephen E. 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In addition, Sigma-Aldrich and Georgia Tech have recently signed an agreement that will allow for Sigma-Aldrich to test market materials developed and scaled-up within Georgia Tech-COPE.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech-COPE has established a new facility dedicated to the synthesis of organic molecular and polymeric electronic and active materials on scales that allow scientists and engineers to conduct system-level studies to better evaluate their"}],"uid":"27185","created_gmt":"2014-07-14 12:14:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:45","author":"Jason Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"308451":{"id":"308451","type":"image","title":"Chemistry Materials","body":null,"created":"1449244708","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:58:28","changed":"1475895017","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:17","alt":"Chemistry Materials","file":{"fid":"199799","name":"09c4202-p1-064.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/09c4202-p1-064_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/09c4202-p1-064_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2563272,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/09c4202-p1-064_0.jpg?itok=dngBTX78"}},"308461":{"id":"308461","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech-COPE Materials Scale UP Facility","body":null,"created":"1449244708","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:58:28","changed":"1475895017","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:17","alt":"Georgia Tech-COPE Materials Scale UP Facility","file":{"fid":"199800","name":"photo1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/photo1_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/photo1_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":59312,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/photo1_1.jpg?itok=CJiU73Cr"}}},"media_ids":["308451","308461"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cope.gatech.edu\/","title":"COPE"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.imat.gatech.edu\/","title":"Institute for Materials"}],"groups":[{"id":"1273","name":"Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"98071","name":"active materials"},{"id":"10797","name":"center for organic photonics and electronics"},{"id":"918","name":"COPE"},{"id":"2942","name":"Kippelen"},{"id":"6727","name":"Marder"},{"id":"2387","name":"oled"},{"id":"6594","name":"organic materials"},{"id":"953","name":"photovoltaics"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"},{"id":"98081","name":"reynolds"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"309071":{"#nid":"309071","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Official Inauguration of the Institut Lafayette","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Monday, May 26, 2014, the leadership of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Mr. E.G. Reade, consul General, dignitaries from the Lorraine region of France, and a host of research and corporate partners will gather at Georgia Tech-Lorraine in Metz, France for the official inauguration of the new building that will house the \u003Cem\u003EInstitut Lafayette\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech entered into a partnership with French governmental entities in 1990 to establish its first international campus in Metz, France. After two decades of innovative educational achievements, a world-class research presence was added in 2006 with the creation of the Georgia Tech-\u003Cem\u003ECentre National de la Recherche Scientifique\u003C\/em\u003E (CNRS) \u003Cem\u003EUnit\u00e9 Mixte Internationale\u003C\/em\u003E laboratory.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is now moving to the next critical stage of expansion of its global influence with the creation of an innovation platform, the\u003Cem\u003E Institut Lafayette\u003C\/em\u003E. By providing access to a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure; by sharing world-class expertise in science and technology; and by offering business model validation and commercialization tools, the \u003Cem\u003EInstitut Lafayette\u003C\/em\u003E will showcase and underscore Georgia Tech\u2019s capacity to help create a full regional ecosystem which can generate innovations of economic and social value for its international partners.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis expansion of Georgia Tech\u2019s global footprint will increase its impact around the globe, and serve to bring the world to Georgia Tech and to the State of Georgia. The \u003Cem\u003EInstitut Lafayette \u003C\/em\u003Ewill create opportunities to establish alliances with universities, companies, and governmental and non-governmental entities whose goals and activities align with Georgia Tech\u2019s strategic mission. This expansion will also significantly augment the teaching, research and entrepreneurial activities of Georgia Tech\u2019s faculty, staff, alumni and students both in Atlanta and in Lorraine. The new facilities also expand the European activities of the Georgia Tech Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (Georgia Tech-COPE). The \u003Cem\u003EInstitut Lafayette\u003C\/em\u003E is expected to serve as a catalyst for economic development in the region of Lorraine and to increase trade exchange opportunities with metropolitan Atlanta, and the State of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELocated adjacent to the existing Georgia Tech-Lorraine building, the brand new 25,000 square foot facility is comprised of offices, laboratories and a 5,000 square foot clean room, fully equipped with state-of-the-art nanofabrication tools to support innovations in optoelectronics and advanced semiconductor materials research. This facility will be managed by Georgia Tech faculty members who are world-renown experts in organic materials and semiconductors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis innovation platform will provide a unique combination of research expertise, an advanced technology infrastructure, and an array of technology transfer services which will increase efficiency and accelerate technology transfer. \u0026nbsp;Its impact and effectiveness will be further enabled by leveraging the resources of Georgia Tech \u2013 The Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2) will provide expertise in technology transfer and commercialization, and the Institute of Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) will provide expertise in managing and operating high-technology infrastructures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Cem\u003EInstitut Lafayette\u003C\/em\u003E was named after the Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat and military officer who served as a major-general in the Continental Army under George Washington in the American Revolution.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;It was in Metz in 1775 that the Marquis de Lafayette made the decision to commit himself to the cause of American independence.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech is now moving to the next critical stage of expansion of its global influence with the creation of an innovation platform, the Institut Lafayette."}],"uid":"27185","created_gmt":"2014-07-17 10:51:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:45","author":"Jason Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"309081":{"id":"309081","type":"image","title":"Inauguration of Institut Lafayette","body":null,"created":"1449244726","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:58:46","changed":"1475895017","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:17","alt":"Inauguration of Institut Lafayette","file":{"fid":"199815","name":"dsc_5166.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dsc_5166_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dsc_5166_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":6153981,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dsc_5166_0.jpg?itok=8nKVcd1R"}}},"media_ids":["309081"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/lafayette.gatech.edu\/","title":"Institut Lafayette"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.lorraine.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech-Lorraine"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.umi2958.eu\/","title":"Georgia Tech CNRS"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cope.gatech.edu\/","title":"COPE"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ien.gatech.edu\/","title":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1273","name":"Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"918","name":"COPE"},{"id":"609","name":"electronics"},{"id":"174","name":"Europe"},{"id":"1499","name":"Institute"},{"id":"4817","name":"lafayette"},{"id":"1692","name":"materials"},{"id":"107","name":"Nanotechnology"},{"id":"167686","name":"Semiconductors"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"308351":{"#nid":"308351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) Hosts Research Experience for Teachers Program Participants","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESTEM has been a buzzword in the education field for many years. Increasing and retaining student interest in science and technology is key to the future economic and innovation health of the U.S. but, to reach the students, we must first reach the teachers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith this teacher centric goal in mind, the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) site at Georgia Institute of Technology sought funding from the National Science Foundation to establish the Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program to connect the education of K-12 graders and university level research into the fields of nano-science and engineering. 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The Center for Understanding and Control of Acid Gas-Induced Evolution of Materials for Energy (UNCAGE-ME) is one of only 10 new Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to be funded through the federal program and is the first EFRC to be led by Georgia Tech. Krista Walton, a ChBE professor, will serve as director for the center, which aims to advance the understanding of how acid gases interact with wide range of energy-related materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cThe overall goal of our EFRC is to provide a fundamental understanding of acid gas interactions with a broad class of materials and establish strategies for extending material stability and lifetime,\u201d Walton said. \u201cThese results will ultimately enable us to accelerate materials discovery for large-scale energy applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFive other ChBE professors \u2014 Christopher Jones, Michael Filler, Ryan Lively, Sankar Nair and David Sholl, and Thomas Orlando, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry \u2014 also will serve as principal investigators at the center. The center will involve work at six partner institutions: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, Tenn.; the Department of Energy\u2019s largest multiprogram science and energy laboratory), the University of Florida, the University of Alabama, the University of Wisconsin, Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pa.) and Washington University in St. Louis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cOur multifaceted approach to this important problem is unique, and one of our proposal reviewers even pointed out that this will be the first research center in the world specifically dedicated to this topic, said Walton.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The research center\u2019s start date is Aug. 1. The awards announced on June 18 are the second round of funding for EFRCs. The 32 projects receiving funding were competitively selected from more than 200 proposals.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the EFRC program, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/science.energy.gov\/bes\/efrc\/\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Center led by the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering to explore acid gas interactions with broad range of materials"}],"uid":"27869","created_gmt":"2014-06-23 13:41:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:37","author":"Allison Caughey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"304591":{"id":"304591","type":"image","title":"Krista Walton","body":null,"created":"1449244637","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:57:17","changed":"1475895009","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:09","alt":"Krista Walton","file":{"fid":"199664","name":"walton.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/walton_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/walton_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":106855,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/walton_1.jpg?itok=f4yta3Ef"}}},"media_ids":["304591"],"groups":[{"id":"217141","name":"Georgia Tech Materials Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"167445","name":"School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"303031":{"#nid":"303031","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor Vladimir Tsukruk Selected as Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations to Professor Vladimir Tsukruk!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Tsukruk has been selected as Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS).Tsukruk conducts research in the field of fabrication and structural characterization of molecular films, his specialized field of research since 1987. He has extensive experience in organic and polymeric materials and molecular films from polymers. Tsukruk is an expert in the microstructural analysis of polymeric materials. He has conducted investigations of LB films and self-assembled monolayers from amphiphilic polyimides, rod-like polymers, liquid crystalline polymers, alkylsilanes, dendrimers, biopolymers, and lipids. 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A place where much of the work accomplished is never viewed by the general public, or even scientists in other disciplines. \u0026nbsp;However, quite a few beautiful, interesting, and inventive creations are being built in the IEN Marcus Nanotechnology labs on a daily basis. The only problem for those interested in checking out the work of our engineers is that they would need eyes able to magnify objects up to 500,000 times their actual size to see them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe IEN Characterization team opened a visual door to these minuscule works of art last month in their inaugural Monthly Image Contest. From intentionally engineered objects to happy accidents caught on film, here are the winners of the May round \u2013\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u201cGrape cluster\u0022\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E by Payam Alipour, PI:\u0026nbsp; Ali Adibi\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003EA nanocluster (particle diameter ~100 nm) of random contamination on a layer of TiO\u003Csub\u003E2\u003C\/sub\u003E deposited on a silicon piece using e-beam evaporation. Image taken with the Zeiss Ultra 60 SEM located in the Marcus Microscopy Suite, level 0 of the Marcus Building.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022Soccer Ball\u0022\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E by Jamey Gigliotti, PI: Farrokh Ayazi and Z.L. Wang\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003EPhoto of a ZnO Nanowire Sphere with a particle diameter of 3.95\u00b5m. 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Image taken with the Olympus MX61 located in the Pettit Cleanroom, level 1 of the Pettit Building.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations to the winners, who will get 5 free hours on the tool of their choice and be entered into a bi-annual Grand Prize selection for cash prizes!\u0026nbsp; Also, thanks to all those who submitted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ien.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/slideshow_nano.html#\u0022\u003ETo see a slideshow of all of the entries, please follow this link.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second round of the Image Contest is underway so, if you have a mini masterpiece, see the contest details below or contact Walter Henderson at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:walter.henderson@ien.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewalter.henderson@ien.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E or Jie Xu at \u003Ca 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Over the years numerous administrators, faculty, staff, students, researchers, and corporate and government partners have contributed to the Center and made a positive impact on education, research, and innovation in the field of organic photonics and electronics. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a thank you to the people who have contributed and made the Center possible, Georgia Tech-COPE will be hosting a \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cope.gatech.edu\/events\/anniversary\/\u0022\u003E10th Anniversary Symposium\u003C\/a\u003E on March 14, 2014\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKeynote speakers:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul id=\u0022genlist\u0022\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~kahnlab\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAntoine Kahn\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Princeton University), \u0022Chemical Doping in Organic Semiconductors\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chem.rochester.edu\/faculty\/faculty.php?name=tang\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EChing Tang\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(University of Rochester), \u0022OLED - The Next Generation Display Technology\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/faculty.utah.edu\/u0027991-ZEEV_VALENTINE_VARDENY\/teaching\/index.hml\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EValy Vardeny\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(University of Utah), \u0022Organic Spintronics\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chemistry.hku.hk\/staff\/wwwyam\/vwwyam.php\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVivian Wing-Wah Yam\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(University of Hong Kong), \u0022Versatile Chromophoric Building Blocks - From Design to Supramolecular Assembly and Materials\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EView the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cope.gatech.edu\/events\/anniversary\/agenda\/Anniversary%20Symposium%20Agenda.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAgenda\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFaculty, alumni, corporate and government partners, students, researchers and university administrators are all invited to participate.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/georgia-tech-cope-10th-anniversary-symposium-registration-9633551211\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERSVP\u003C\/a\u003E (required to attend)\u0026nbsp;for the Symposium.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParticipants at Symposium\u0026nbsp;have the opportunity to:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul id=\u0022genlist\u0022\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELearn about cutting-edge research from world-renowned faculty members\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELearn about research and products being worked on at partner companies\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMeet top students and graduates who are prepared for the workforce\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDiscuss emerging trends with recognized experts in the field\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFind knowledge and ideas to solve challenging problems\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EConnect with global researchers and companies\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Symposium will take place at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center. 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It\u2019s what\u2019s at the heart of Georgia Tech, and the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC) sustains that heartbeat by serving as the contracting entity for the Institute\u2019s externally funded research projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBelow, GTRC\u2019s Vice President of Research Jilda Garton talks about the Contract Continuum, a mechanism introduced by GTRC\u2019s recently established Office of Industry Engagement to make it easier for industry and university researchers to engage at any point in the R\u0026amp;D process \u2014 from early-stage research to product launch. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETell us about the Office of Industry Engagement. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was created by merging the functions of technology licensing, industry contracting, and international collaborations. Organized into three offices: Innovation Commercialization; Industry Collaborations and Affiliated Licenses; and International Contracts and Technology Transfer, Industry Engagement allows for better alignment of contract administration activities and intellectual property expertise. This synergy increases the efficiency of the negotiation process and expedites the time to contract.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECould you explain the Contract Continuum? \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Contract Continuum is a collection of four research contracts: Basic Research, Applied Research, Demonstration, and Specialized Testing. These contracts simplify collaboration between Tech and industry \u2014 at all R\u0026amp;D stages \u2014 streamlining the contracting process for industry and for our researchers by providing appropriate terms and conditions upfront based upon the research needed. So, working with the principal investigator to determine the type of research to be performed as well as the facilities to be used, a contracting officer determines which of the four contracts in the Continuum is appropriate. In some cases, all four agreement types may be necessary; it just depends on the relationship with the sponsor and the outcome desired.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat makes the Contract Continuum attractive to industry?\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EOur established terms and conditions for intellectual property definitively address needs that industry has expressed about: having access to the intellectual property generated from the research; excluding competitors from access to that intellectual property \u2014 in the particular field of use \u2014 on a fair and reasonable basis; and incurring a financial risk that is reasonable. Additionally, our agreements align with industry\u2019s R\u0026amp;D process.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy should faculty be excited about the Contract Continuum?\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was designed to provide our researchers the greatest amount of flexibility in both the type of research that can be performed and the facilities that can be used for research. It allows the principal investigators to pursue transformative research that may not have otherwise taken place. While our industry partners are assured of intellectual property exclusivity, at the same time, we\u2019ve preserved our opportunities for entrepreneurship in other fields of use. This is how, for instance, we have seen results from jet engine research lead to advances with cardiac devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESince the Contract Continuum was introduced in March, what benefits have you seen?\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EWe\u2019ve been able to efficiently finalize negotiations that, in the past, would have been protracted or not have materialized. In several recent negotiations, for example, Tech was able to quickly develop a coordinated agreement, allowing the sponsor and our researchers to engage in projects across different schools and GTRI \u2014 funded by different business units of the sponsor, and throughout the research spectrum \u2014 all without the need for legal review on a project-by-project basis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat do faculty need to understand about efficiently using the Contract Continuum?\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EEven with its increased flexibility and transparency, the Continuum must still operate within the framework of Institute policies, state laws, and federal regulations. So, it\u2019s extremely important for researchers to work with their contracting officer early in the proposal process. 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Sometimes the research is successfully commercialized; sometimes it is not.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. students Matthieu Leibovici and Amir Dindar, advised by Professor Tom Gaylord and Professor Bernard Kippelen, respectively, are currently enrolled in the TI:GER program. While they are at different stages in the program, both are reaping the rewards of TI:GER\u2019s four-course academic track that provides instruction in technology commercialization processes with a focus on technology law and business fundamentals. An added benefit of the program is that many of the research students receive a two-year, half-time graduate research assistantship to cover their stipend and tuition waiver.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMatthieu Leibovici and his team are in the first semester of the program and are pursing the commercialization of pattern-integrated interference lithography (PIIL) technology, the subject of his graduate research currently developed in the GT Optics Laboratory. The lack of rapid and inexpensive fabrication techniques for periodic structures at the nano-scale has resulted in a significant roadblock to commercial development. PIIL addresses the limitations of multi-beam interference lithography by coupling it with projection lithography simultaneously. PIIL has far-reaching possibilities in areas such as optical communications, HD displays, solar cells, and biomedical devices, among others.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile Leibovici and his team hope to commercialize the technology and are currently seeking partners for development and licensing, he is quick to stress that TI:GER is not an incubator, but an education program. He says, \u201cThe goal is for Ph.D. students to gain business and legal skills in an environment of learning how to commercialize a technology, but you don\u2019t \u2018fail\u2019 if you don\u2019t launch a company.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESecond year TI:GER participant, Amir Dindar, is researching an ink-jet printed organic thin-film solar cell module for his electrical engineering doctoral degree. With this emerging technology, a solar cell module can be fabricated on top of glass as well as flexible substrates such as plastic. Low fabrication costs combined with applications that include futuristic new products such as bendable and disposable electronics had Dindar\u2019s TI:GER team excited about taking the product to market.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe one downside of organic solar cells is low-efficiency compared to conventional cells. The team knew this was a hurdle, but as part of their coursework, they embarked on an extensive discovery phase that involved in-depth industry analysis, product concepting, and market segmentation. In the end, their research uncovered that the return on investment was too low to make the technology viable in the market\u2014for now.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe learned a valuable lesson through our analysis. In academia, you aren\u2019t as concerned about the market, but in industry it often happens that your idea isn\u2019t feasible. You have to either stop the project or change direction. TI:GER helped me pinpoint problems in my research and now I have the opportunity to solve them,\u201d says Dindar.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program, which was started in 2002 with funds from the National Science Foundation, provides a unique opportunity to ECE doctoral students. Adding an advantageous dimension to ECE curriculum, TI:GER teaches students to be both innovators and entrepreneurs. This duality is what academic institutions and industry are looking for in new hires.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarie Thursby, Director of the TI:GER program says, \u201cPrograms like TI:GER give engineering students a competitive edge in the market. It\u2019s not enough to just have the technical knowledge. Companies are looking for students with leadership skills and an understanding of what it takes to capitalize on technology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInterested students can plan to attend the information session on February 18, 2014. Please RSVP to \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jennifer.jacobs@scheller.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJennifer Jacobs\u003C\/a\u003E by Feb. 17th. For more information, click \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.tiger.gatech.edu\/admissions\/phd_admission.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe two-year TI:GER program\u2019s interdisciplinary approach intersects science, law, and business and brings together Georgia Tech Ph.D. and M.B.A. students with law students from Emory University. 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The replicas possess natural adhesion properties inherited from the spiky pollen particles while gaining magnetic behavior, allowing for tailored adhesion to surfaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy taking advantage of the native pollen grain shape and a non-natural oxide chemistry, this work provides a unique demonstration of tunable, bio-enabled multimodal adhesion. The spikes inherited from the sunflower pollen provide short range adhesion \u2013 over nanoscale distances \u2013 while the oxide chemistry provides an adhesion mode that operates over much longer distances \u2013 up to one millimeter.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and has been accepted for publication in the journal \u003Cem\u003EChemistry of Materials\u003C\/em\u003E. A \u201cjust-accepted\u201d version of the manuscript has appeared online.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPollen grains are inexpensive and sustainable templates that are readily available in large quantities,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/faculty\/sandhage\u0022\u003EKen Sandhage\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Materials Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u201cBecause pollen grains are already designed by nature for adhesion, we thought that it would be interesting to try to augment such natural behavior with an additional, non-natural mode of adhesion.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESandhage and graduate student Brandon Goodwin began by examining the microscopic shapes of several types of pollen \u2013 including ragweed, pecan and dandelion \u2013 before choosing particles from the sunflower (\u003Cem\u003EHelianthus annuus\u003C\/em\u003E). The sunflower pollen grains are nearly spherical, but covered with spikes that can entangle with the hairs on bees\u2019 legs, or adhere to surfaces via van der Waals forces at nanometer-scale distances, Sandhage explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers washed the burr-like pollen particles with chloroform, methanol, hydrochloric acid and water to clean the surfaces and expose hydroxyl groups for chemically attaching their coating. They then applied iron oxide using an automated, layer-by-layer surface sol-gel process they had developed earlier for coating diatom shells made of silica. Reaction of the iron oxide precursor with the hydroxyl groups on the surface of the pollen particles resulted in a highly-conformal coatings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe sol-gel process used alternating cycles of exposure to an iron (III) isopropoxide precursor solution and water to apply 30 thin layers of hematite (Fe\u003Csub\u003E2\u003C\/sub\u003EO\u003Csub\u003E3\u003C\/sub\u003E) onto the pollen. Heating the particles to 600 degrees Celsius then burned out the organic material from the original pollen grains and crystallized the iron oxide, leaving hollow 3D particles. The shells were then heated again in a controlled oxygen atmosphere to convert the hematite into magnetite (Fe\u003Csub\u003E3\u003C\/sub\u003EO\u003Csub\u003E4\u003C\/sub\u003E), which is more strongly magnetic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe examined individual pollen grains before and after firing, and we could see that the shape and surface features were well preserved,\u201d said Sandhage, who is the B. Mifflin Hood Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering. \u201cThe conformal nature of the coating process allowed us to generate ceramic replicas that retained even tiny surface features on the starting pollen grains.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe adhesion properties of the magnetic pollen-shaped particles were then analyzed by graduate student Ismael Gomez and professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/meredith\u0022\u003ECarson Meredith\u003C\/a\u003E, both from Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. Gomez and Meredith used an atomic force microscope (AFM) tip to press the replicas onto a variety of surfaces, then measured the force required to remove them from the surfaces. They studied replica pollen adhesion to polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl acetate, polystyrene, silicon, nickel and neodymium-iron-boron \u2013 and compared the adhesion properties to those of the original sunflower pollen grains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe found that we achieved multimodal adhesion by retaining short-range van der Waals attraction, as exhibited by the native pollen, and gaining magnetic adhesion,\u201d Sandhage said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe layer-by-layer nature of the coating process allowed for control of the amount of magnetic material, and the magnetic properties of the pollen replicas. The researchers chose to apply 30 layers to achieve sufficient long-range magnetic behavior while retaining high-aspect-ratio, sharp spikes that provide for short-range van der Waals forces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cReproducibly generating large quantities of such cheap microparticles possessing high-aspect surface features over their entire particle surfaces would be quite challenging using synthetic top-down methods,\u201d Sandhage said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Air Force Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) that funded the work is aimed at both understanding adhesion in natural systems and controllably tailoring such adhesion.\u0026nbsp; In future research supported by the MURI, Sandhage and Meredith plan to study other oxide materials and explore the variety of shapes available in pollen particles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNow that we know how to generate such particle replicas, there is certainly more chemical tailoring that we can explore for adhesion,\u201d said Sandhage, who also holds an adjunct position in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.\u0026nbsp; \u201cThrough the proper combination of pollen shape, synthetic chemistry and thermal treatments, we can significantly expand the range of properties of these pollen replicas.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research through award number FA9550-10-1-0555. 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In this installment, Acting Executive Director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ien.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInstitute for Electronics and Nanotechnology\u003C\/a\u003E (IEN) Oliver Brand\u0026nbsp;answers questions about IEN and also talks about its efforts to support Georgia Tech faculty and students.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQ:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EThe areas of electronics and nanotechnology encompass a vast number of research topics. How does IEN assist these research endeavors and bring together faculty, staff, and students?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Indeed, electronics and nanotechnology are affecting many disciplines: from medicine and health care to sustainable energy production, from protecting the environment to protecting our country\u2019s infrastructure, from consumer electronic devices to complex systems such as high-speed trains or airplanes, to name a few.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf we look at electronics and nanotechnology research today, we see that it requires a rather broad interdisciplinary approach, bringing together scientists and engineers from various disciplines across campus, as well as \u2013 depending on the application \u2013 medical personnel or researchers from public policy. We have recently assessed that approximately 25 percent of faculty members at Georgia Tech are involved in electronics and nanotechnology research in some manner.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIEN has several strategies to fuse such interdisciplinary research: First, IEN \u0026nbsp;supports nine research centers and programs that bring together faculty and students in more focused research areas, such as microelectromechanical systems, optoelectronics and photonics, photovoltaics, next generation semiconductors, devices and systems, high-frequency, broadband, mixed-signal electronic devices, circuits and systems, and micro- and nanoelectronics packaging. Second, IEN maintains state-of-the-art research laboratories in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building and the Pettit Microelectronics Research Building that host research groups from across campus. And, last but not least, IEN-sponsored events, such as the Nano@Tech seminar series, the NanoFANS forum, and an annual user research symposium, facilitate dissemination of on-campus research and stimulate discussion and collaboration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQ: \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Can you tell us a bit about IEN\u2019s cleanroom facilities?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA: \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECore facilities providing the necessary high-tech infrastructure\u003C\/a\u003E are essential to research in the area of electronics and nanotechnology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany of the structures and devices that researchers investigate have micrometer or even nanometer dimensions and are often fabricated using complex instrumentation housed in exceptionally clean environments. These \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecleanrooms\u003C\/a\u003E require substantial investments in infrastructure, highly skilled maintenance and management personnel, and round-the-clock monitoring.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has always been a front-runner in this area and opened its first shared-user cleanroom in the Pettit Microelectronics Building in 1988. In 2009, the Marcus Nanotechnology Building opened, featuring a unique combination of inorganic and organic cleanrooms to facilitate research at the intersection of nanotechnology, biosciences, bioengineering, and medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday, our shared-user cleanrooms and laboratories host more than 200 fabrication and characterization tools, the largest shared-user toolset at any U.S. university. These tools are accessible to Georgia Tech students, researchers, and faculty \u2013 as well as to external academic and industry researchers at relatively low costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, IEN is part of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), a program supported by the National Science Foundation. NNIN\u2019s goal is to provide broad access to fabrication and characterization facilities to promote nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. Almost 800 researchers, 600 from this campus and 200 from off campus, have used the IEN cleanrooms and labs in the past 12 months. Skilled IEN staff train new users and assist with processing and characterization needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQ:\u0026nbsp;How does IEN support education and outreach?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA: \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EMost of the users of our cleanrooms are actually Georgia Tech graduate students who gain hands-on experience with techniques such as growing nanostructures in dedicated furnaces and imaging results using high-resolution electron microscopes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIEN also supports several REU (research experience for undergraduates) programs during the summer that allow undergraduate students from across the U.S. to perform hands-on electronics and nanotechnology research. To support instructional activities, we maintain a special teaching cleanroom, which is used for micro\/nanotechnology lab courses taught in three engineering schools: electrical and computer, mechanical, and chemical and biomolecular engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFinally, IEN is the headquarters of the NNIN education and outreach office, which supports many programs targeting K-12 students, teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, and the general public.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQ: \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;What is on the horizon for IEN?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026nbsp; The most imminent efforts are associated with the build-out of the Marcus Nanotechnology Building. Interdisciplinary research laboratories for biomedical devices, physical devices and systems, and nanomaterials, are either under construction or in the design phases. Additionally, construction is underway for a shared-user imaging and characterization suite in the basement of the Marcus Nanotechnology Building. Upon completion in 2014, this low vibration, low electromagnetic interference (EMI) facility will house a suite of high-resolution scanning and transmission electron microscopes, x-ray tomography systems, and surface characterization tools, as well as ion-beam-based nano-machining systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIEN has also initiated a research seed grant program for Georgia Tech faculty and students. The grantees are awarded blocks of access time to IEN cleanrooms to execute new ideas and generate initial results that may lead to funded proposal submissions. A semiannual submission, review, and award process is in place. The next round of grants will be offered in spring 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFinally, IEN is participating in Tech\u2019s efforts to develop an industry membership model, which will enable industry to more easily become familiar with Tech\u2019s research activities in electronics and nanotechnology. The goals are to raise funds to seed new research ideas in a self-sustaining manner, and connect industry with students and faculty to jump-start funded research projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQ: \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;How does IEN connect commercial and government entities to campus faculty and resources and help streamline the collaboration or contracting processes.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp; First, IEN staff serves on various campus councils where they work collaboratively with other Interdisciplinary Research Institutes and campus development staff. 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The team is awarded the grand prize for receiving the highest overall score. Congratulations Keith and Ehsan!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EScores in the categories of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eresearch content\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Epresentation\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;were so close that all teams in this year\u0027s contest will share equally in the remaining prizes. The other teams receiving prizes are:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/youtu.be\/_zWxaDtGTbQ\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003EOrdering of Semiconducting Polymers for Organic Electronics\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EChoi Dalsu, JiHwan Kang, Nabil Kleinhenz, Ashwin Ravisankar, Saujan Sivaram\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/youtu.be\/73cq440RFqs\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003EThermal Transport in Conjugated Polymer Nanotubes for Electronics Cooling\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EThomas Bougher and Matthew Smith\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Tech\u2013COPE Research Video Contest\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cope.gatech.edu\/education\/videocontest.php\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2013COPE Research Video Contest\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;gives students involved in the field of organic photonics and electronics at Georgia Tech an opportunity to present their research and compete with other students.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech-COPE Research Video Contest gives students involved in the field of organic photonics and electronics at Georgia Tech an opportunity to present their research and compete with other students."}],"uid":"27185","created_gmt":"2013-10-28 11:48:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:14","author":"Jason Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"249821":{"id":"249821","type":"image","title":"Georgia-Tech COPE video contest logo","body":null,"created":"1449243795","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:15","changed":"1475894929","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:49","alt":"Georgia-Tech COPE video contest logo","file":{"fid":"198071","name":"videocontestbanner.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/videocontestbanner_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/videocontestbanner_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":59749,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/videocontestbanner_0.png?itok=Lv_yQqZK"}}},"media_ids":["249821"],"groups":[{"id":"1273","name":"Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"78351","name":"cope research video contest"},{"id":"5917","name":"organic electronics"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"197","name":"video"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"249341":{"#nid":"249341","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2014 COPE Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics is pleased to announce that applications will now be accepted for the 2014 COPE Fellowship. Students funded by this fellowship will receive a $5,000 award to his\/her existing stipend. Students will have access to our network, meet peers from other departments and are encouraged to participate in various COPE activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEligibility\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul class=\u0022clearfix\u0022\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGraduate students with a Bachelor\u2019s degree by the time the award begins.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EApplicants should have a superior academic record as demonstrated by a GPA of 3.5 or higher. Only students who have been at Georgia Tech for at least two years, and engaged in research for at least one year, are eligible to apply.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStudent supported will perform research in the field of Organic Photonics and Electronics and will present their research at the end of the year to the COPE community.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EYou must be a COPE student member. 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Please review the benefits and responsibilities of being a COPE student member\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cope.gatech.edu\/images\/student_members.pdf\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAward\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe award will provide a bonus of $5,000 to the current stipend the student has from his\/her home department.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDeadline\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe application deadline is November November 21, 2013.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The COPE Fellowship provides graduate students doing research in the field of organic photonics and electronics with a $5000 award."}],"uid":"27185","created_gmt":"2013-10-28 11:35:36","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:14","author":"Jason Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-10-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-10-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"107151":{"id":"107151","type":"image","title":"COPE Fellowship Logo","body":null,"created":"1449178188","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:29:48","changed":"1475894725","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:25","alt":"COPE Fellowship Logo","file":{"fid":"193991","name":"logocopefellowship.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/logocopefellowship_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/logocopefellowship_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":33197,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/logocopefellowship_0.png?itok=0QIXJAOK"}}},"media_ids":["107151"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cope.gatech.edu\/education\/fellowshipapplication.php","title":"Apply"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cope.gatech.edu\/education\/copefellowship.php","title":"COPE Fellowship"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cope.gatech.edu\/","title":"COPE"}],"groups":[{"id":"1273","name":"Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10797","name":"center for organic photonics and electronics"},{"id":"368","name":"Fellowship"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESharon Lawrence\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["sharon.lawrence@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"244361":{"#nid":"244361","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bernard Kippelen Named as Pettit Professor in ECE","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBernard Kippelen, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been named as a Joseph M. Pettit Professor, effective September 1. This title was previously held by Mark G. Allen, who remains an ECE adjunct faculty member after accepting a research leadership post at the University of Pennsylvania.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA member of the ECE faculty since 2003, Kippelen conducts research ranging from the investigation of fundamental physical processes to the design, fabrication, and testing of lightweight flexible optoelectronic devices and circuits based on nanostructured organic materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining Georgia Tech, Kippelen was on the faculty of the University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center from 1994-2003 and was a senior research lecturer with the French National Centre for Scientific Research from 1990-1994. He currently serves as the director of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics at Georgia Tech and is the associate director of CIS:HSEM, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring his academic career, Kippelen has graduated 11 Ph.D. students and five master\u0027s students. He has also mentored a large number of undergraduate researchers, including 20 students at Tech, and 20 postdoctoral fellows. Kippelen is the co-author of 235 refereed publications and 12 book chapters, and he holds 15 patents. He is the president of the Lafayette Institute, a major optoelectronics commercialization initiative that is based at Georgia Tech-Lorraine in Metz, France.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research findings of Kippelen and his team have been the focus of many technical and popular press articles, with the most recent featuring the development of solar cells made from plants and trees. 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Container\u2019s Properties Affect the Viscosity of Nanoscale Water","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWater pours into a cup at about the same rate regardless of whether the water bottle is made of glass or plastic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut at nanometer-size scales for water and potentially other fluids, whether the container is made of glass or plastic does make a significant difference. A new study shows that in nanoscopic channels, the effective viscosity of water in channels made of glass can be twice as high as water in plastic channels. Nanoscopic glass channels can make water flow more like ketchup than ordinary H\u003Csub\u003E2\u003C\/sub\u003EO.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe effect of container properties on the fluids they hold offers yet another example of surprising phenomena at the nanoscale. And it also provides a new factor that the designers of tiny mechanical systems must take into account.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAt the nanoscale, viscosity is no longer constant, so these results help redefine our understanding of fluid flow at this scale,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/elisa-riedo\u0022\u003EElisa Riedo\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u201cAnyone performing an experiment, developing a technology or attempting to understand a biological process that involves water or another liquid at this size scale will now have to take the properties of surfaces into account.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose effects could be important to designers of devices such as high resolution 3D printers that use nanoscale nozzles, nanofluidic systems and even certain biomedical devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EConsidering that nano-confined water is ubiquitous in animal bodies, in rocks, and in nanotechnology, this new understanding could have a broad impact.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch into the properties of liquids confined by different materials was sponsored by the Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Basic Sciences and the National Science Foundation. The results were reported September 19 in the journal \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe viscosity differences created by container materials are directly affected by the degree to which the materials are either hydrophilic \u2013 which means they attract water \u2013 or hydrophobic \u2013 which means they repel it. The researchers believe that in hydrophilic materials, the attraction for water \u2013 a property known as \u201cwettability\u201d \u2013 makes water molecules more difficult to move, contributing to an increase in the fluid\u2019s effective viscosity. On the other hand, water isn\u2019t as attracted to hydrophobic materials, making the molecules easier to move and producing lower viscosity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn research reported in the journal, this water behavior appeared only when water was confined to spaces of a few nanometers or less \u2013 the equivalent of just a few layers of water molecules.\u0026nbsp; The viscosity continued to increase as the surfaces were moved closer together.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research team studied water confined by five different surfaces: mica, graphene oxide, silicon, diamond-like carbon, and graphite. Mica, used in the drilling industry, was the most hydrophilic of the materials, while graphite was the most hydrophobic. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe saw a clear one-to-one relationship between the degree to which the confining material was hydrophilic and the viscosity that we measured,\u201d Riedo said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExperimentally, the researchers began by preparing atomically-smooth surfaces of the materials, then placing highly-purified water onto them. Next, an AFM tip made of silicon was moved across the surfaces at varying heights until it made contact. The tip \u2013 about 40 nanometers in diameter \u2013 was then lifted up and the measurements continued.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the viscosity of the water increased, the force needed to move the AFM tip also increased, causing it to twist slightly on the cantilever beam used to raise and lower the tip. Changes in this torsion angle were measured by a laser bounced off the reflective cantilever, providing an indication of changes in the force exerted on the tip, the viscous resistance exerted \u2013 and therefore the water\u2019s effective viscosity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen the AFM tip was about one nanometer away from the surface, we began to see an increase of the viscous force acting on the tip for the hydrophilic surfaces,\u201d Riedo said. \u201cWe had to use larger forces to move the tip at this point, and the closer we got to the surface, the more dramatic this became.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose differences can be explained by understanding how water behaves differently on different surfaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAt the nanoscale, liquid-surface interaction forces become important, particularly when the liquid molecules are confined in tiny spaces,\u201d Riedo explained. \u201cWhen the surfaces are hydrophilic, the water sticks to the surface and does not want to move. On hydrophobic surfaces, the water is slipping on the surfaces. With this study, not only have we observed this nanoscale wetting-dependent viscosity, but we have also been able to explain quantitatively the origin of the observed changes and relate them to boundary slip. This new understanding was able to explain previous unclear results of energy dissipation during dynamic AFM studies in water.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile the researchers have so far only studied the effect of the material properties in water channels, Riedo expects to perform similar experiments on other fluids, including oils. Beyond simple fluids, she hopes to study complex fluids composed of nanoparticles in suspension to determine how the phenomenon changes with particle size and chemistry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is no reason why this should not be true for other liquids, which means that this could redefine the way that fluid dynamics is understood at the nanoscale,\u201d she said. \u201cEvery technology and natural process that uses liquids confined at the nanoscale will be affected.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to Riedo, co-authors of the paper included Deborah Ortiz-Young, Hsiang-Chih Chiu and Suenne Kim, who were at Georgia Tech when the research was done, and Kislon Voitchovsky of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: Deborah Ortiz-Young, Hsiang-Chih Chiu, Suenne Kim, Kislon Voitchovsky and Elisa Riedo, \u201cThe interplay between apparent viscosity and wettability in nanoconfined water,\u0022 (Nature Communications, 2013).\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2013\/130919\/ncomms3482\/full\/ncomms3482.html\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2013\/130919\/ncomms3482\/full\/ncomms3482.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under grant DE-FG02-06ER46293 and by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grants DMR-0120967, DMR-0706031 and CMMI-1100290. Any opinions or conclusions are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the DOE or NSF.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30332-0181 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Assistance\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)(404-894-6986) or Brett Israel (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebrett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)(404-385-1933)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWater pours into a cup at about the same rate regardless of whether the water bottle is made of glass or plastic. 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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have \u201cpainted\u201d the Mona Lisa on a substrate surface approximately 30 microns in width \u2013 or one-third the width of a human hair. The team\u2019s creation, the \u201cMini Lisa,\u201d demonstrates a technique that could potentially be used to achieve nanomanufacturing of devices because the team was able to vary the surface concentration of molecules on such short-length scales.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe image was created with an atomic force microscope and a process called ThermoChemical NanoLithography (TCNL). Going pixel by pixel, the Georgia Tech team positioned a heated cantilever at the substrate surface to create a series of confined nanoscale chemical reactions. By varying only the heat at each location, Ph.D. Candidate Keith Carroll controlled the number of new molecules that were created. The greater the heat, the greater the local concentration. More heat produced the lighter shades of gray, as seen on the Mini Lisa\u2019s forehead and hands. Less heat produced the darker shades in her dress and hair seen when the molecular canvas is visualized using fluorescent dye. Each pixel is spaced by 125 nanometers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy tuning the temperature, our team manipulated chemical reactions to yield variations in the molecular concentrations on the nanoscale,\u201d said Jennifer Curtis, an associate professor in the School of Physics and the study\u2019s lead author. \u201cThe spatial confinement of these reactions provides the precision required to generate complex chemical images like the Mini Lisa.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProduction of chemical concentration gradients and variations on the sub-micrometer scale are difficult to achieve with other techniques, despite a wide range of applications the process could allow. The Georgia Tech TCNL research collaboration, which includes associate professor Elisa Riedo and Regents Professor Seth Marder, produced chemical gradients of amine groups, but expects that the process could be extended for use with other materials.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe envision TCNL will be capable of patterning gradients of other physical or chemical properties, such as conductivity of graphene,\u201d Curtis said. \u201cThis technique should enable a wide range of previously inaccessible experiments and applications in fields as diverse as nanoelectronics, optoelectronics and bioengineering.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother advantage, according to Curtis, is that atomic force microscopes are fairly common and the thermal control is relatively straightforward, making the approach accessible to both academic and industrial laboratories.\u0026nbsp; To facilitate their vision of nano-manufacturing devices with TCNL, the Georgia Tech team has recently integrated nanoarrays of five thermal cantilevers to accelerate the pace of production. Because the technique provides high spatial resolutions at a speed faster than other existing methods, even with a single cantilever, Curtis is hopeful that TCNL will provide the option of nanoscale printing integrated with the fabrication of large quantities of surfaces or everyday materials whose dimensions are more than one billion times larger than the TCNL features themselves.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe paper, Fabricating Nanoscale Chemical Gradients with ThermoChemical NanoLithography, is \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/la400996w\u0022\u003Epublished online\u003C\/a\u003E by the journal Langmuir.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was funded by the National Science Foundation (PHYS-0849497, DMR-0120967, DMR-0820382 and CMMI-1100290). The findings and conclusions are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NSF. This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy (Office of Basic Energy Services) under award number DE-FG02-06ER46293. This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof. 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block co-polymer structures as tiny reaction vessels, researchers have developed an improved technique for producing nanocrystals with consistent sizes, compositions and architectures \u2013 including metallic, ferroelectric, magnetic, semiconductor and luminescent nanocrystals. The technique relies on the length of polymer molecules and the ratio of two solvents to control the size and uniformity of colloidal nanocrystals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe technique could facilitate the use of nanoparticles for optical, electrical, optoelectronic, magnetic, catalysis and other applications in which tight control over size and structure is essential to obtaining desirable properties. The technique produces plain, core-shell and hollow nanoparticles that can be made soluble either in water or in organic solvents.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have developed a general strategy for making a large variety of nanoparticles in different size ranges, compositions and architectures,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/faculty\/zhiqun-lin\u0022\u003EZhiqun Lin\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Materials Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u201cThis very robust technique allows us to craft a wide range of nanoparticles that cannot be easily produced with any other approaches.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe technique was described in the June issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003ENature Nanotechnology\u003C\/em\u003E. The research was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe star-shaped block co-polymer structures consist of a central beta-cyclodextrin core to which multiple \u201carms\u201d \u2013 as many as 21 linear block co-polymers \u2013 are covalently bonded. The star-shaped block co-polymers form the unimolecular micelles that serve as a reaction vessel and template for the formation of the nanocrystals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe inner blocks of unimolecular micelles are poly(acrylic) acid (PAA), which is hydrophilic, which allows metal ions to enter them. Once inside the tiny reaction vessels made of PAA, the ions react with the PAA to form nanocrystals, which range in size from a few nanometers up to a few tens of nanometers. The size of the nanoparticles is determined by the length of the PAA chain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe block co-polymer structures can be made with hydrophilic inner blocks and hydrophobic outer blocks \u2013 amphiphilic block co-polymers, with which the resulting nanoparticles can be dissolved in organic solvents. However, if both inner and outer blocks are hydrophilic \u2013 all hydrophilic block co-polymers \u2013 the resulting nanoparticles will be water-soluble, making them suitable for biomedical applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELin and collaborators Xinchang Pang, Lei Zhao, Wei Han and Xukai Xin found that they could control the uniformity of the nanoparticles by varying the volume ratio of two solvents \u2013 dimethlformamide and benzyl alcohol \u2013 in which the nanoparticles are formed. For ferroelectric lead titanate (PbTiO\u003Csub\u003E3\u003C\/sub\u003E) nanoparticles, for instance, a 9-to-1 solvent ratio produces the most uniform nanoparticles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers have also made iron oxide, zinc oxide, titanium oxide, cuprous oxide, cadmium selenide, barium titanate, gold, platinum and silver nanocrystals. The technique could be applicable to nearly all transition or main-group metal ions and organometallic ions, Lin said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe crystallinity of the nanoparticles we are able to create is the key to a lot of applications,\u201d he added. \u201cWe need to make them with good crystalline structures so they will exhibit good physical properties.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarlier techniques for producing polymeric micelles with linear block co-polymers have been limited by the stability of the structures and by the consistency of the nanocrystals they produce, Lin said. Current fabrication techniques include organic solution-phase synthesis, thermolysis of organometallic precursors, sol-gel processes, hydrothermal reactions and biomimetic or dendrimer templating. These existing techniques often require stringent conditions, are difficult to generalize, include a complex series of steps, and can\u2019t withstand changes in the environment around them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy contrast, nanoparticle production technique developed by the Georgia Tech researchers is general and robust. The nanoparticles remain stable and homogeneous for long periods of time \u2013 as much as two years so far \u2013 with no precipitation. Such flexibility and stability could allow a range of practical applications, Lin said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur star-like block co-polymers can overcome the thermodynamic instabilities of conventional linear block co-polymers,\u201d he said. \u201cThe chain length of the inner PAA blocks dictates the size of the nanoparticles, and the uniformity of the nanoparticles is influenced by the solvents used in the system.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers have used a variety of star-like di-block and tri-block co-polymers as nanoreactors. Among them are poly(acrylic acid)-block-polystyrene (PAA-b-PS) and poly(acrylic acid)-blockpoly(ethylene oxide) (PAA-b-PEO) diblock co-polymers, and poly(4-vinylpyridine)-block-poly(tert-butyl acrylate)-block-polystyrene (P4VP-b-PtBA-b-PS), poly(4-vinylpyridine)-block-poly (tert-butyl acrylate)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) (P4VP-b-PtBA-b-PEO), polystyrene-block-poly(acrylic acid)-block-polystyrene (PS-b-PAA-b-PS) and polystyrene-block-poly(acrylic acid)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) (PS-b-PAA-b-PEO) tri-block co-polymers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the future, Lin envisions more complex nanocrystals with multifunctional shells and additional shapes, including nanorods and so-called \u201cJanus\u201d nanoparticles that are composed of biphasic geometry of two dissimilar materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) under awards FA9550-09-1-0388 and FA9550-13-1-0101. The conclusions expressed in this news releases are those of the principal investigator and do not necessarily represent the official views of the AFOSR.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: Xinchang Pang, Lei Zhao, Wei Han, Xukai Xin and Zhiqun Lin, \u201cA general and robust strategy for the synthesis of nearly monodisperse colloidal nanocrystals,\u201d (Nature Nanotechnology, 8, 426, 2013). \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nnano.2013.85\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nnano.2013.85\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nnano.2013.85\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30332-0181\u0026nbsp; USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contact\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)(404-894-6986).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUsing star-shaped block co-polymer structures as tiny reaction vessels, researchers have developed an improved technique for producing nanocrystals with consistent sizes, compositions and architectures \u2013 including metallic, ferroelectric, magnetic, semiconductor and luminescent nanocrystals. 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Perry\u0026nbsp;has been a\u0026nbsp;Professor in the\u0026nbsp;School of Chemistry Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of\u0026nbsp;Technology for the\u0026nbsp;past ten years and is an associate director of COPE.\u0026nbsp;He received his B.S.\u0026nbsp;in Chemistry at the University of South Florida and\u0026nbsp;his Ph.D. in Chemical\u0026nbsp;Physics at Caltech in 1984.\u0026nbsp;His research includes organic photonic\u0026nbsp;materials, two-photon absorption, 3D microfabricaton, plasmonics, and energy\u0026nbsp;storage materials.\u0026nbsp;He has\u0026nbsp;published over 200 scientific articles\u0026nbsp;and has eight issued patents. His awards include the NASA Medal for\u0026nbsp;Exceptional\u0026nbsp;Scientific Achievement in 1992 and NSF\u2019s Special Creativity Award in 1997.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;He is a Fellow\u0026nbsp;of the Optical Society of America, American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.\u0026nbsp;","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Joseph Perry has been awarded an Invited Professorship at the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) in Lyon, France.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27275","created_gmt":"2013-05-13 13:20:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:16","author":"Shirley Tomes","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"212981":{"id":"212981","type":"image","title":"joe perry","body":null,"created":"1449180076","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 22:01:16","changed":"1475894876","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:56","alt":"joe perry","file":{"fid":"196979","name":"0543645-p12-24.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/0543645-p12-24_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/0543645-p12-24_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1255762,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/0543645-p12-24_0.jpg?itok=txlTl_ic"}}},"media_ids":["212981"],"groups":[{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EShirley Tomes (404-894-0591) \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:shirley.tomes@chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eshirley.tomes@chemistry.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["joe.perry@chemistry.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"205851":{"#nid":"205851","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Novaled Joins the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENovaled AG, a leader in the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) field, that specializes in high efficiency, long-lifetime OLED structures has joined the Center for Organic Photonics at Georgia Tech as member of the Center\u2019s \u003Cem\u003EIndustrial Affiliates Program\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHeadquartered in Dresden, Germany, Novaled offers proprietary organic materials and complementary innovative technologies for superior OLEDs in display and lighting and for high performance Organic Solar Cells. In the field of organic electronics, Novaled\u2019s expertise is unique in combining physics, chemistry, and engineering support.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen asked about joining the program, Dr. Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth, founder and CSO of Novaled stated, \u201cCOPE\u2019s research track record qualifies them as one of the major organic electronic research centers in the world. It\u2019s very impressive what an interdisciplinary team of researchers developed at GeorgiaTech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a member of the program, Novaled will connect to the faculty expertise and highly trained student and graduates of the Center as well as an international network of partners in the field of organic photonics and electronics.\u0026nbsp; This includes information on the latest research and discoveries and invitations to exclusive events.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth added, \u201cCOPE\u2019s work on organic electronic materials and related materials applications is a good match to Novaled\u2019s expertise in these areas. We expect that this co-operation will help fuel our longer term strategic research agenda.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBernard Kippelen, Director of the Center stated, \u201cCOPE is extremely pleased to welcome Novaled in its Industrial Affiliates Program. As a major supplier of dopants for organic semiconductors and one of the leaders OLED technologies, Novaled brings a lot of experience to our center in commercializing new organic compounds and device architectures for printed and flexible electronics. 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It\u2019s fitting that they can now be made partially from trees.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University researchers have developed efficient solar cells using natural substrates derived from plants such as trees. Just as importantly, by fabricating them on cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) substrates, the solar cells can be quickly recycled in water at the end of their lifecycle.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe technology is \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nature.com\/srep\/2013\/130325\/srep01536\/full\/srep01536.html\u0022\u003Epublished\u003C\/a\u003E in the journal Scientific Reports, the latest open-access journal from the Nature Publishing Group.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers report that the organic solar cells reach a power conversion efficiency of 2.7 percent, an unprecedented figure for cells on substrates derived from renewable raw materials. The CNC substrates on which the solar cells are fabricated are optically transparent, enabling light to pass through them before being absorbed by a very thin layer of an organic semiconductor. During the recycling process, the solar cells are simply immersed in water at room temperature. Within only minutes, the CNC substrate dissolves and the solar cell can be separated easily into its major components.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Engineering Professor Bernard Kippelen led the study and says his team\u2019s project opens the door for a truly recyclable, sustainable and renewable solar cell technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe development and performance of organic substrates in solar technology continues to improve, providing engineers with a good indication of future applications,\u201d said Kippelen, who is also the director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE). \u201cBut organic solar cells must be recyclable. Otherwise we are simply solving one problem, less dependence on fossil fuels, while creating another, a technology that produces energy from renewable sources but is not disposable at the end of its lifecycle.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo date, organic solar cells have been typically fabricated on glass or plastic. Neither is easily recyclable, and petroleum-based substrates are not very eco-friendly. For instance, if cells fabricated on glass were to break during manufacturing or installation, the useless materials would be difficult to dispose of. Paper substrates are better for the environment, but have shown limited performance because of high surface roughness or porosity. However, cellulose nanomaterials made from wood are green, renewable and sustainable. The substrates have a low surface roughness of only about two nanometers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur next steps will be to work toward improving the power conversion efficiency over 10 percent, levels similar to solar cells fabricated on glass or petroleum-based substrates,\u201d said Kippelen. The group plans to achieve this by optimizing the optical properties of the solar cell\u2019s electrode. \u0022We will also coat these cells with an eco-friendly, thin environmental barrier coating to protect the cells from water and oxygen when operating in the field.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPurdue School of Materials Engineering associate professor Jeffrey Youngblood collaborated with Kippelen on the research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA provisional patent on the technology has been filed with the U.S. Patent Office.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere\u2019s also another positive impact of using natural products to create cellulose nanomaterials. The nation\u2019s forest product industry projects that tens of millions of tons of them could be produced once large-scale production begins, potentially in the next five years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research is the latest project by COPE, which studies the use and development of printed electronics. Last year the center created the first-ever \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/release.html?nid=124901\u0022\u003Ecompletely plastic solar cell\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThis research was funded in part through the Center for Interface Science: Solar Electric Materials, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award Number DE-SC0001084 (Y.Z., J.S., C.F., A.D.), by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Grant No. FA9550-09-1-0418) (J. 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Jean-Luc\u2019s cutting-edge research in the field of organic electronics and photonics and extensive, well-funded national and international collaborations with academic and industrial partners have immensely contributed to the advancement and training of his graduate research assistants and visiting graduate students. The interdisciplinary character of his research and collaborations, broad expertise of his senior group members, and cultural diversity of his group, provide opportunities for his graduate research assistants and visiting graduate students to not only perform at their highest level and publish their results in high-quality journals, but also learn to work in a team and adapt to different backgrounds and perspectives. 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The ceremony will happen at the New Orleans ACS National Meeting during the PMSE\/Poly Awards Reception on April 10.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cSelection as a fellow is an honor as it recognizes the extensive work and successes my research group has had in designing, synthesizing, characterizing and evaluating the properties of pi-conjugated polymers.\u0026nbsp;We have developed these materials for color changing electrochromic, energy harvesting photovoltaic, charge storing supercapacitor and light-emitting applications,\u201d said Reynolds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Reynolds has had a long and illustrious career. He came to Tech last spring from the University of Florida, where he was both a professor of chemistry and the associate director of the Center for Macromolecular Science and Engineering. 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Students funded by this fellowship will receive a $5,000 award to his\/her existing stipend. Students will have access to our network, meet peers from other departments and are encouraged to participate in various COPE activities.\u003C\/p\u003EEligibility\u003Cul class=\u0022clearfix\u0022\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGraduate students with a Bachelor\u2019s degree by the time the award begins.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EApplicants should have a superior academic record as demonstrated by a GPA of 3.5 or higher. Only students who have been at Georgia Tech for at least two years, and engaged in research for at least one year, are eligible to apply.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStudent supported will perform research in the field of Organic Photonics and Electronics and will present their research at the end of the year to the COPE community.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EYou must be a COPE student member. 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This includes information on the latest research and discoveries and invitations to exclusive events.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019ve joined this center to have access to the state of the art conductive and electro-active technology base that has been assembled at Georgia Tech,\u201d said Patrick Kinlen of Boeing Research \u0026amp; Technology Materials, Processes \u0026amp; Structures Technologies. \u201cThis technology has impact for Boeing in the area of conductive coatings, photovoltaics, electrochromics and energy storage.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCOPE is extremely pleased to count Boeing among its industrial affiliates,\u201d said Bernard Kippelen, Georgia Tech director of the center. \u201cHaving a company with a long tradition of aerospace leadership and innovation like The Boeing Company join our center speaks for the strong potential that COPE\u2019s technological innovations can have in the future of commercial jetliners, and in defense, space and security applications.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoeing is the world\u2019s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems. A top U.S. exporter, the company supports airlines and U.S. and allied government customers in 150 countries. Boeing products and tailored services include commercial and military aircraft, satellites, weapons, electronic and defense systems, launch systems, advanced information and communications systems, and performance-based logistics and training.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoeing Research \u0026amp; Technology is the advanced, central research and development organization of Boeing. It provides innovative technologies that enable the development of future aerospace solutions while improving the cycle time, cost, quality and performance of current aerospace products and services.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBoeing is the world\u2019s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems. A top U.S. exporter, the company supports airlines and U.S. and allied government customers in 150 countries. Boeing products and tailored services include commercial and military aircraft, satellites, weapons, electronic and defense systems, launch systems, advanced information and communications systems, and performance-based logistics and training.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a member of the program, Boeing will connect to the faculty expertise and highly trained students and graduates of the center as well as an international network of partners in the field of organic photonics and electronics. 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But plastic semiconductors have an important flaw: the electronic current is influenced by \u201ccharge traps\u201d in the material. These traps, which have a negative impact on plastic light-emitting diodes and solar cells, are poorly understood.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, a new study by a team of researchers from the University of Groningen and the Georgia Institute of Technology reveals a common mechanism underlying these traps and provides a theoretical framework to design trap-free plastic electronics. The results are presented in an advance online publication of the journal \u003Cem\u003ENature Materials\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlastic semiconductors are made from organic, carbon-based polymers, comprising a tunable forbidden energy gap. In a plastic light-emitting diode (LED), an electron current is injected into a higher molecular orbital, situated just above the energy gap. After injection, the electrons move toward the middle of the LED and fall down in energy across the forbidden energy gap, converting the energy loss into photons. As a result, an electrical current is converted into visible light.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, during their passage through the semiconductor, a lot of electrons get stuck in traps in the material and can no longer be converted into light. In addition, this trapping process greatly reduces the electron current and moves the location where electrons are converted into photons away from the center of the device.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis reduces the amount of light the diode can produce,\u201d explained Herman Nicolai, first author of the \u003Cem\u003ENature Materials\u003C\/em\u003E paper.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe traps are poorly understood, and it has been suggested that they are caused by kinks in the polymer chains or impurities in the material.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019ve set out to solve this puzzle by comparing the properties of these traps in nine different polymers,\u201d Nicolai explained. \u201cThe comparison revealed that the traps in all materials had a very similar energy level.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech group, led by Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/Bredas\/\u0022\u003EJean-Luc Bredas\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E, investigated computationally the electronic structure of a wide range of possible traps. \u201cWhat we found out from the calculations is that the energy level of the traps measured experimentally matches that produced by a water-oxygen complex,\u201d said Bredas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENicolai explains that \u201csuch a complex could easily be introduced during the manufacturing of the semiconductor material, even if this is done under controlled conditions.\u201d The devices Nicolai studied were fabricated in a nitrogen atmosphere, \u201cbut this cannot prevent contamination with minute quantities of oxygen and water,\u201d he noted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe fact that the traps have a similar energy level means that it is now possible to estimate the expected electron current in different plastic materials. And it also points the way to trap-free materials. \u201cThe trap energy lies in the forbidden energy gap,\u201d Nicolai explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis energy gap represents the difference in energy of the outer shell in which the electrons circle in their ground state and the higher orbital to which they can be moved to become mobile charge carriers. When such a mobile electron runs into a trap that is within the energy gap it will fall in, because the trap has a lower energy level.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBut if chemists could design semiconducting polymers in which the trap energy is above that of the higher orbital in which the electrons move through the material, they couldn\u2019t fall in,\u201d he suggested. \u201cIn this case, the energy level of the trap would be higher than that of the electron.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe results of this study are therefore important for both plastic LEDs and plastic solar cells. \u201cIn both cases, the electron current should not be hindered by charge trapping. With our results, more efficient designs can be made,\u201d Nicolai concluded.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe experimental work for this study was done in the Zernike Institute of Advanced Materials (ZIAM) at the faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. The theoretical work to identify the nature of the trap was carried out at the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work at the University of Groningen was supported by the European Commission under contract FP7-13708 (AEVIOM). The work at Georgia Tech was supported by the MRSEC program of the National Science Foundation under award number DMR-0819885.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECitation: H. T. Nicolai1, M. Kuik1, G. A. H.Wetzelaer1, B. de Boer1, C. Campbell2, C. Risko2, J. L. Br\u00e9das2,4 and P.W. M. Blom1,3* Unification of trap-limited electron transport in semiconducting polymers. 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Attendees got a jump-start on networking with their peers, while getting a first-hand look at some of the equipment where Plextronics develops their suite of products that were on display during the reception. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe next morning, symposium attendees arrived at the Sheraton Station Square hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, where the technical portion of the symposium took place. \u0026nbsp;The day started with welcoming addresses from Bernard Kippelen (Director of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics at Georgia Tech), Pierre Barth\u00e9lemy (Solvay, Senior Vice President \u2013 Organic Electronics), and Andrew Hannah (CEO, Plextronics).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring day one attendees heard presentations from Richard McCullough (Carnegie Mellon University), Kieran Reynolds (Eight19), Marie-Beatrice Madec (Solvay Interox), Zhenan Bao (Stanford University), Mike Hack (Universal Display Corporation), Gopalan Rajeswaran (Moser Baer Technologies), Natalie Stingelin (Imperial College London), Christer Karlsson (Thin Film Electronics), John Reynolds (Georgia Tech), and Antonio Facchetti (Polyera).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe day was capped with researchers and graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech, and Solvay presenting their latest research during the traditional poster session and reception.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDay two featured presentations from David Bucknall (Georgia Tech), Vincent Thulliez (Solvay), Andrew Hannah (Plextronics), Larry Hough (Rhodia: Member of the Solvay Group), and Tobin Marks (Northwestern University).\u0026nbsp; 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As a member of the program, Cambridge NanoTech will connect to the faculty expertise and highly trained student and graduates of the Center as well as an international network of industrial partners in the field of organic photonics and electronics.\u0026nbsp; This includes access to the latest research and discoveries in this emerging field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy approaching material science development through the use of fundamental techniques such as Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), scientists and engineers are able to improve device performance and produce novel applications\u201d explained Ganesh Sundaram, Vice President of Technology at Cambridge NanoTech. \u201cALD is capable of depositing flexible, multi-functional materials at low deposition temperatures, which is ideal when integrating these materials into organic electronics and photonics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECambridge NanoTech first introduced ALD systems nine years ago and has an install base of over 300 systems on six continents. 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